But once we read a word or see an image, do we not then internalize them? Do they not become part of our imagination and our lexicon, whether we agree with the ideas in these words and images or not? For example, perhaps your answer to these questions is no, and yet some instance in the future will remind you of these questions. This would, I believe, prove my point, since you have internalized the questions, whether you change your answer or not.
This is how we sometimes confuse other people's thoughts for our own, after having internalized them and forgetting their source of origin. Like someone who hears an opinion from you and comes to you later expressing the same opinion hesitantly, as if after arriving at his conclusion due to his laborious research, he worries that you may disagree for dogmatic reasons. He asks you after he relays your opinion back to you: "Do you agree?" And to avoid a scene, and at the expense of your ego, you say yes, you agree with him.
Excerpt from a story in my notes, written in 2014. Posted now on Instagram.
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